November 21, 2009
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November 21, 2009
Cats:
Dogs:
Bonus Video:
November 21, 2009
Cat:
Chipmunk:
Yeah, I know, that's probably not a chipmunk.
November 21, 2009
The Anthropocentric Global Warming Denialist Community is collectively creaming in its collective jeans over the release of zillions of emails that definitively prove that the whole global warming conspiracy thing was made up. Real Climate has the story:
There is no evidence of any worldwide…
November 20, 2009
I have a few non-authoritative comments regarding recent and current medical developments. This concerns the flu (esp. the H1N1 Swine Pandemic Flu), and the two recent changes in screening recommendations, for breast and cervical cancer and related issues.
Regarding the flu, we are seeing more…
November 20, 2009
Artificial Intelligence as a term implies that there is a "natural" intelligence we wish to replicate in the lab and then engineer in any one of several practical contexts. There is nothing in the term that implies that "intelligence" be human, but the implication is clear that such a thing as "…
November 20, 2009
A high-voltage arc caused by a 500kV Switch opening up in the Nevada Desert. An enormous Jacob's Ladder
November 20, 2009
Some guy named David (but he would not give his last name) and his friends were handing around Ray Comfort's tricked-out version of Darwin's Origin of Species on the University of Minnesota Campus today. Thanks to my former student Becky for sending me these links:
Minnesota Daily: Creationists…
November 20, 2009
All marriage was accidentally banned in Texas when Texas banned "Gay Marriage." What a bunch of morons.
Details here.
November 19, 2009
A zillion funny computer images are here.
November 19, 2009
Send an email to yourself in the future! This service allows you to send an email to yourself in the future. This is a little like an assignment my daughter was given this year in school: A letter to yourself that you are then forced to open and read when you are a Senior. Only this is an email…
November 19, 2009
An Icelandic firm that offers private DNA testing to customers has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records, according to the Times of London.
DeCODE Genetics, a genetics research firm, began offering personalized DNA testing…
November 19, 2009
... overflowing from the room with the stage. Every chair in the bar area had one or two people standing on it, as did most of the tables. ... models moved a couple at a time out onto the open stage, walked around and sometimes did things to make the crowd laugh or scream ...
Read on ...
November 19, 2009
According to an Australian Australian Senator Nick Zenophon.
Senator Xenophon [raised] allegations of widespread criminal conduct within the church, saying he had received letters from former followers detailing claims of abuse, false imprisonment and forced abortion.
He says he has passed on the…
November 18, 2009
There are not going to be too many more of these:
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the…
November 18, 2009
I was sitting at a very hip bar in a very hip joint the other day speaking with a couple of very hip people. Then one of the hipsters asked the bartender for a couple of "PBR's"
"PBR," I thought. That must be the hip new drink. And silly me, I'm sitting here drinking my very unhip oatmeal…
November 18, 2009
Do not try this at home unless you are a certified physics teacher. Try not to think about what all the crap is in this guy's microwave. And do wear goggles. The really interesting part is after five minutes. That's where the science starts.
November 18, 2009
You probably heard about Michele Bachmann's "Whites of their eyes" event last week, where she urged reporters to arrive en masse at the US Capitol, to swarm the halls and glare at their congresspersons in the eyes until the blinked. Or voted against health care insurance reform. Or something.…
November 18, 2009
Hat Tip: Julia
November 18, 2009
Cooking turkey is actually kind of a dumb idea. Most people don't ever cook turkey. Turkey is like chicken ... it's a domestic bird that is familiar to all Americans ... but it is very difficult to cook in a way that does not ruin it. So once a year, you cook this huge bird and try not to ruin it…
November 18, 2009
Wow. My internet connection was down for a few hours. Did I miss anything?
November 18, 2009
Milky Way Rising from Dean Rowe on Vimeo.
November 17, 2009
I'm writing an academic article and I have writers block. Lets see ... what shall I do....
Need a sentence for your latest article? Write one here! Just select a word or phrase from each drop-down list and click "Write It."
So I did that and came up with:
The eroticization of the gaze…
November 17, 2009
From an "unknown greater good" to "evil is necessary to prove God's existence" it's all a lot of hooey and post hoc justification.
August Berkshire has a new version of his list, here.
November 17, 2009
First, blotto one light bulb to appease the gods:
Then...
November 17, 2009
The first part of this documentary, including the preface and the first several minutes of the main body of the work, should be deleted. The writers and producers who put that part together should be captured, gutted, eviscerated, and their dried and salted remains staked to the front entrance of…
November 17, 2009
I never realized that George Bush had such a bald-fetish until I saw THIS.
Follow the money
Fully automatic cute fuzzy thing.
